Watch & Discuss the groundbreaking 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Event Date:
Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 2:00pm
Starring three Oscar-winning actors, Sidney Poitier, Spencer Tracy, and Katharine Hepburn, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? was the first positive representation of interracial marriage in U.S. cinema -- and interracial marriage was still illegal in seventeen states when the film was released.
Sociologist Erica Chito-Childs will lead a discussion of interracial images in popular culture.
Brooklyn Historical Society
128 Pierrepont Street
Free with museum admission ($6/$4)
Light refreshments will be served